Ouachita Athletics Hall of Fame
Ike Sharp was a football player from 1947-50 and a volunteer golf coach in the mid-1990s before retiring with his wife after serving as dorm parents at Ouachita’s Daniel North dormitory.
Sharp was a four-year letterman while playing offensive guard and nose tackle from 1947-50 and also handled kick-offs for the Tigers. The moment Sharp is most known for in football is when he successfully kicked three onside kicks in the last seven minutes of the 1949 Ouachita-Henderson game in which the Tigers came back from a 14-0 deficit to win 17-14.
Sharp was the founding member of the Ouachita Tiger Gridiron Club and is a member of the Arizona High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame.
Sharp passed away in 2010. He and his late wife, Billie, created a generational legacy at Ouachita with three children and two grandchildren earning degrees from the university.Â
